Praise for VA

Recently, we had a member of our family admitted to Veterans Hospital on Zorn Avenue. He was a hospice patient.

Our family would like to praise all the administration, doctors, nurses and all the staff in the emergency room including June and Gomer.

On the fifth floor north, we appreciate all the staff - Jim, Grace, Jenny and others on the nursing staff and the janitor - for their care and compassion. The parking guys were great, too.

Louisville is so blessed to have this VA hospital. Hats off to all the VA hospital employees and especially our veterans.

RITA WAGONER

Louisville 40291 -

Wake up, voters

Voters who re-elected President Obama need to wake up and let their voices be heard. The hard-core, right-wing neo-cons, tea-partiers are making a mockery of the 2012 presidential election. The 51-plus percent who voted for President Obama are letting the right-wing, neo-con, tea party take over the country. Now some are calling for impeachment of President Obama. Can't they read the Constitution and see what the articles of impeachment consist of?

Make your voices heard. Let them know you voted for President Obama to get this country back on track and not for the obstructionism, lies and legislation that will cripple this country further. If moderate, intelligent people don't start fighting back, they're coming after you.

They are bound and determined to destroy the social safety nets that have been in effect since Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson. They are livid that American voters put President Obama back in office and don't care, as long as their rich buddies are taken care of, if the average American sinks to the bottom of the barrel.

Wake up, America, and stop these ideologues from destroying the American way of life. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are the right of all American citizens, not just for the right-wing and their rich friends.

MILTON WILLIAMS

Louisville 40214 -

A pro-life state

What a breath of fresh air to have writers like Bob Heleringer joining the editorial page!

On a day when old canards on abortion are mindlessly spouted, yet again (C-J Letters, Aug. 28), Heleringer offers enlightened clarity to the burning issues of our time.

Indeed, Kentucky is a pro-life state, yet only a couple of Democrat leaders in the state House are blocking the voice of the people from being heard. Upwards of 90 of the 100 representatives would restore common sense provisions in our informed-consent law, and protect mothers and their unborn children in other ways, if permitted to have a full vote on the House floor.

In 2014, Kentucky voters must elect five more Republicans to give the party of life a majority in the House.

If astute leaders like Heleringer were still in the legislature, they would rightly proclaim that women are not better off with legal abortion. The myriad physical, emotional and spiritual hardships endured by women (oftentimes unreported by the media) are stark.

Women are still being maimed and killed by a procedure that was supposed to be safe, once legal. To name just two recent victims - Jennifer Morbelli died from a later-term, 33-week abortion Feb. 7 in Maryland and ­Tonya Reaves died July 20, 2012, after a second-trimester abortion at a Chicago Planned Parenthood clinic.

Abortionists are the bottom-feeders of a corrupted medical profession.

America's first feminists, such as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, exemplified pro-life convictions. If alive today, they would both condemn abortion as child murder, and tirelessly extend to women real alternatives to unplanned pregnancies (like today's volunteer crisis pregnancy centers do), rather than death, hopelessness, and exploitation.

SCHU MONTGOMERY

Louisville 40222 -

Avoiding abortion

Kentucky Rep. Tom Burch is right on the mark in his Aug. 24 letter suggesting methods of avoiding abortions. Well said! Right to Lifers need to be more concerned with care and protection of children after birth and have greater support of women's right to birth control and more protection from rape. Let's see these suggestions put into action.